Replication Package for "An Empirical Comparison of Dependency Network Evolution in Seven Software Packaging Ecosystems"

This is the replication package for the article "An Empirical Comparison of Dependency Network Evolution in Seven Software Packaging Ecosystems" published in the Empirical Software Engineering journal. This package requires Python 3.5 and all the dependencies that are listed in "requirements.txt". The notebooks (in "notebooks" folder) should be opened and executed with Jupyter. The notebooks require the graphs (in "graphs" folder) to be computed first. To do so, execute "helpers.py" with Python. The graphs are built using the data provided by https://libraries.io under CC BY-SA https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Those data can be found in the "data" folder.